Windswept Brewing Co announces closure

Scottish craft brewery Windswept Brewing Co has revealed it will be closing its doors unless a buyer can be found for its business.

The Moray business, based in Lossiemouth, announced its intentions to close its doors, despite being an award winning brewery and taproom, due to “an increasing number of challenges” which have had “a significant impact” on the brewery’s “viability as a business”.

Windswept Brewing Co’s portfolio of beers include: Hurricane, Tornado, as well as styles such as its whisky cask-aged beer Wolf Of Glen Moray.

Windswept Brewing Co co-founders Al Read and Nigel Tiddy, both former RAF pilots said: “Unfortunately, spiralling energy and raw material costs and falling sales throughout the craft beer industry, caused largely by the cost-of-living crisis, have left us in the position where we are no longer able to ride out the storm.”

The duo explained how the “past 11 years have been an amazing adventure” and admitted that the brewery had come a long way since its first brew in November 2012”.

Read and Tiddy added: “It’s not goodbye just yet” and said that the business would remain open until 29 January for online sales while its taproom would stay open until 3 February and urged fans of the beer and brewery to come in and “give Windswept the send-off it deserves”.